Word: haroun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saracen overlord. Returning in force, the Saracen prevails, but not until O'Neill has, with his bare hands, slain one of their champions. For this feat his life is spared by Kothra, the sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...
Perry will play the part of Haroun-al-Raschid, the Caliph. Perry is a former president of the Dramatic Club, and has played in nearly every production for the past four years...
...first time in London in 1924 with great success. The scene is laid in the Bagdad of the fifteenth century. Adventure, intrigue, and romance are woven into a story which combines rare wit and humor with high emotional power. In a setting of color and life is placed Haroun at Raschid, the famous Caliph, and Hassan, a poor confectioner...
...Hassan" is full of the atmosphere of "The Arabian Nights." The scene is laid in ancient Bagdad, in the days of Haroun al Raschid, and there are pictures of disguise and adventure, cruel fate and torture. "The New Statesman" refers to "Hassan" as a "magnificent acting play. It is a work of unalloyed emotional sincerity and a great luxurious warmth of imagination. If it becomes advantageous again to parade abroad the fruits of English culture, our patriot propagandists, looking round for modern poetic tragedy of English birth with which to impress neutrals, will not be forced to fall back...
Mosque and State. The Angora Assembly has decreed the separation of mosque and state, and so the Caliph, successor to Mohammed and Haroun al Raschid, will no longer have any temporal power, such as his predecessors had. It was feared that the Moslems in India would object to this sudden move, but a congress of Moslem religious teachers in Calcutta has wired approval to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, calling him the " Renovator of the Caliphate," and accepting the new status of the Caliph. The present Caliph's " holy beard" has just reached the length required for sultans, and was blessed...